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WASHINGTON – Harvard economist Oliver Hart, talking to reporters after learning he’d won the Nobel economics prize with Bengt Holmstrom of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sized up the state of the U.S. economy as OK. Do you really think that a robot can quantify all the news that happens on a daily basis. The markets are at the tail end of an eight-year bull market, and instead of major economic indicators pointing to overheated growth, we are experiencing modest growth at best… and even that is slowing.

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The US government is borrowing trillions of dollars to finance its debt, while increasing money supply immensely leading to inflationary concerns, when inflation goes up, gold skyrockets. Weakness in real GDP growth during the first quarter of 2016 was due to a decline in inventory and non-residential fixed investment, declining state and local government expenditures, and a continuing deterioration in our trade balance. The 2nd Annual Capital Region Business Forum is taking place in the nation’s capital, where the governors of Maryland and Virginia will gather to talk about economic issues. Some incidents may turn a technical Forex trader into a fundamental trader because the trader knows the economic factors that will cause volatility in the price of the currency, and wants to profit from a subsequent movement. This information revolution is what’s causing the layoffs in the newspaper industry.